Top 8 Geography And History Quotes

What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects

What are your choices? Whom are your choices for? Not just for yourself. Chose now whom you will serve, and that choice is going to affect the next generation, and the next generation, and the next. Choice never affects just one person alone. It goes on and on and the effect goes out into geography and history. You are part of history and your choices become part of history.

Edith Schaeffer

Inspirational, Life, Geography And History

The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Men, Geography And History, Fabric

"Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine".

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

Kenneth Waltz

Geography And History, Theory, Relation

Kenneth N. Waltz (2013). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.107, Columbia University Press

As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.

Jennifer Granholm

Country, Geography And History, Energy

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke

Philosophy, Teaching, Geography And History

In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as "primitive.

Albert Einstein

Teaching, Geography And History, Understanding

Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.103, Princeton University Press

As Geography without History seemeth a carkasse without motion; so History without Geography wandreth as a Vagrant without a certaine habitation.

John Smith

Geography And History, History, Vagrants

John Smith (2006). “Generall Historie of Virginia Vol 1: New England & the Summer Isles”, p.331, Applewood Books

It has been said that Canada is bounded 'on the north by gold, on the west by the East, on the east by history - and on the south by friends'.* We hope that will always be the case and we hope it will be the case not only with respect to the United States, your immediate neighbor to the south, but with respect to all your southern neighbors - and ours - who are bound by the great forces of geography and history which are distinctive to the New World.

Richard M. Nixon

Geography And History, Southern, Presidential

Nixon, Richard M. (1974). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Richard M. Nixon, 1972”, p.538, Best Books on